'Infinity War' Will Rule Another Weekend
by EG
Avengers: Infinity War - Part I has already had the biggest opening weekend in history. Is it possible that that Marvel behemoth could also pull off the biggest second weekend ever? Probably not, but it's likely to have the second-biggest second weekend of all time. And that means every other movie needs to just get out of its way.
Pity any film going up against Avengers: Infinity War.
The Disney and Marvel superhero tentpole is slotted to earn north of $100 million to $125 million in its sophomore weekend after opening to a record-breaking $257.7 million domestically and $640.5 million globally last weekend. On Friday or Saturday, Infinity War will become the fastest film in history to cross $1 billion at the worldwide box office.
The other major Hollywood studios continue to hold off unfurling their big summer pics because of Infinity War. Instead, the three new titles opening this weekend are smaller movies targeting specific audiences.
MGM and Lionsgate's Pantelion Films will bow the remake Overboard in roughly 1,500 theaters. Popular Mexican star Eugenio Derbez stars in the romantic comedy, which is tracking to earn $10 million to $15 million in its debut.
Derbez, whose credits include the box-office hit How to Be a Latin Lover, stars opposite Anna Faris in Overboard, a comedy about a working-class single mom who is hired to clean the yacht of a rich playboy, only to be unjustly fired. After Derbez's character falls overboard and awakens with a bad case of amnesia, he's duped into thinking he is Faris' character's husband and put to work.
Focus Features and director Jason Reitman's Tully, starring Charlize Theron, will go after the specialty crowd when rolling out in approximately 1,300 cinemas. The comedy is a reunion for Theron, Reitman and screenwriter Diablo Cody, who worked together on 2011's Young Adult.
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